A Primer of American LiteratureHoughton, Osgood, 1880 - 117 頁 |
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第 12 頁 - John Eliot, the 'Apostle to the Indians," was born in England and educated at the University of Cambridge, coming to Boston in 1631, and accepting as his life-mission, the next year, the conversion of the Indians, who were evidently, in his opinion, the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel...
第 10 頁 - Hooker, Thomas. The Application of Redemption, By the Effectual Work of the Word, and Spirit of Christ, for the Bringing Home of Lost Sinners to God.
第 89 頁 - The Picture of St. John" (1866), "The Masque of the Gods" (1872), "Lars" (1873), and "The Prophet" (1874), "Home Pastorals," (1875), and " Prince Deukalion,
第 15 頁 - Each Member brought a Number of Books and presented them to the Body ; and laying them on the Table, said these Words, or to this Effect ; "I give these Books for the founding a College in this Colony" Then the Trustees as a Body took Possession of them ; and appointed the Rev.
第 56 頁 - He himself said that though he was not insensible to literary reputation, he set a higher value on his " name as appended to the anti-slavery declaration of 1833 than on the title page of any book.
第 57 頁 - Home Ballads, 1860. In War Time, 1863. National Lyrics. 1865. Snow-Bound, 1866. The Tent on the Beach, 1867. Among the Hills, 1868. Miriam, 1870. The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, 1872. Hazel Blossoms, 1874. Centennial Hymn, 1876. The Vision of Echard. 1878. The King's Missive, 1881.
第 51 頁 - Whittier, though both were born in 1807. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, of a courtly and well-to-do family. When fourteen years old he entered Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1825 in the class with Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is a circumstance without precedent that the two persons who are by many considered the first poet and the first prose writer of the country received their bachelor's degree at the same time and from the same hands. Other members of this remarkable class were George...
第 63 頁 - American jRei'iew ; and his critical and miscellaneous essays in those periodicals have been collected into volumes entitled Among my Books (two series) and My Study Windows. These books, which show their author to be the leading American critic, are a very agreeable union of wit and wisdom, and are the result of extensive reading, illuminated by excellent critical insight. The only objection ever made to them is due to their somewhat colloquial style ; but this has been generally regarded as one...
第 55 頁 - Hyperion (1839) is a rounded and interesting romance, with a quaintness which is not artificial. It is a wonderful example of the beauty of the English language. Kavanagh (1849) is a shorter tale, written in a more popular, but idyllic, style. It should be mentioned that an essay on Anglo-Saxon literature, published more than forty years ago, gave the first considerable impulse to the study of that language, in which American scholars have since done more work than their English contemporaries.
第 20 頁 - Franklin's mind was attentive to trifles, his philosophy never got beyond the homely maxims of worldly prudence," ° and Charles F. Richardson, the most considerable of the nineteenthcentury American literary historians, in speaking of Poor Richard in 1884, remarked, "The inculcation of practices of prudence and economy was always a leading idea in these maxims, and they had a prompt effect in increasing the amount of •AH Smyth, American literature, 20, Philadelphia, Eldredge and Brothers, 1889....